Jiří Wiedermann belongs
to the first generation of computer scientists graduating in former
Czechoslovakia. He works in informatics since the beginning of his scientific
carrier in nineteen seventies. His research interests include ad-hoc networks,
algorithms (design and analysis), algorithmic systems, applied algorithmics, artificial intelligence, artificial life,
cognitive systems, computational complexity theory (incl. non-uniform
complexity theory), datastructures, distributed
computing, embodied robotics, information technology, intelligent algorithms,
languages and automata, machine learning, non-standard computational models
(amorphous computing, molecular computing, nano-computing,
super-Turing computability, etc.), networks and network modeling, network
algorithms, neurocomputing, parallel computing,
philosophy and computing, theoretical computer science, and more.In these fields he published two monographs
and more than 150 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings.Some of his results have entered the monographs
and textbooks in computer science. By his invited talks, publications and
activities in organization of important European and national computer science
conferences he contributed to the development of informatics both at national
and international level. In nineteen nineties he acted as the vice-president of
the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). Between 2000
and 2012 he served as the director of the Institute of Computer Science of
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Professor Wiedermann was a member of
the board of directors of ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics
and Mathematics) (1997-2010) and is a member of Academia Europaea
(London) and of the Czech Learned Society (Prague).

Wiedermann,
J., Pardubská, D.: On the Power of Broadcasting
in Mobile Computing. Chapter in: B. Cooper, B. Loewe, A. Sorbi (eds.), New
Computational Paradigms: Changing Conceptions of What Is Computable. To
appear in LNCS Springer-Verlag, New York Inc.,
2007.